There aren’t many ways to locate users on Pinterest.
Currently, you can do the following:
- Connect your Facebook and Twitter friends and followers to see who is using
- Click on your friends’ lists to see who they’re following
- Look in your stream to see who your friends are re-pinning
- Click on a hashtag
- Search in the upper left of the screen
(It just isn’t easy.)
So I’m here to help!
There are some amazingly creative people doing great work and you should really be following them. (Please feel free to leave a link to your board in the comments after this post – I’d love to follow you!)
Ok, here’s the list.
1) Sha Hwang
Location: San Francisco, California
About: “i want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now http://postarchitectural.com”
My favorite boards on Sha’s page: UltraMapping, Sculpture, and Things I Have Bought Because of Pinterest. Ok, and Hello Little Fella 
Location: Pinterest HQ
About: Cynthia works at Pinterest. She was educated at RPI, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. More about Cynthia here.
My favorite boards on Cynthia’s page: Art, Design, and Irrational Fears.
Location: Houston, TX
About: “I’m 18 and taking a year off to travel and work before going to Uni. If a pin is missing a link, let me know and I will do my best to fix it.”
My favorite boards on Cynthia’s page: Buy It, Style, and University Apartment.
4) Nancy Guchte
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
My favorite boards on Nancy’s page: displays, sink, galvanized and zinc, and Good Morning!
Thanks for your article. I checked out the people you suggested and some of them are pretty cool. I’m impressed at how many followers they have. I think my boards are more interesting, though. Just saying. I do a lot of repins but I do my own research as well. And have a ton of fun doing it. I don’t have much in the way of DIY, though I read them avidly. I don’t have wedding or cooking or clothing, though I do love to cook. What I do have is lots of ephemera, art, art inspiration, a smattering of Dr. Who fangirl stuff and some tech goodies, and sure, some links to my own product. But mostly I’m a collector, a curator, a culture generalist and I love to share ideas. http://pinterest.com/smallequals/
Thanks for this blog post (and the other one as well
I am http://pinterest.com/avisiontorememb/
We made a list of pinners to follow on Pinterest: http://www.pinnerstofollow.com that includes brands, celebs, tastemakers and just awesome pinners. Would love to see Pinterest build a tool like this into the site.
Thanks. I am loving Pinterest and looking to branch out in who I follow. I am http://pinterest.com/juditye/ or Judith Epstein. I’d love to be one of those people with thousands following. A girl can dream….